Some day, I hope I learn to trust my judgment. Last night I was working on Sweater Weather by Plum Street.
See the dachshund on the right? His sweater looks green, right? Most charts will have the "legend" and they will list overdyes or silks, along with DMC.
For that sweater, the overdye is Stepping Stones by Weeks. The DMC color is 640. Here's the 123 Stitch listing for Stepping Stones:
That does not look green, does it? So, why did I start stitching with that color when I had DMC 640 that's obviously the right shade of green.
Thankfully, at some point, I decided no, this is not right.
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Got that all ripped out before I went to bed so this afternoon, I will started on it again and next time, I hope I will trust my feelings and not keep stitching when it doesn't look right.
I think the problem was that, even though I had the DMC 640, it was in the sewing room and not yet on a floss tag. The dogs were already asleep on my lap and disturbing them usually results in at least half an hour of chaos. I could have just moved over to another area to stitch but, nope, I didn't. Next time . . I will . . or will I? :)
Well the other color is pretty but when you like a chart by the colors you see it in, it's so disappointing when they don't match up to the actual color of floss. I just realized I stitched an entire flower in the wrong area of my wreath but it's just a small project so I think I'm just going to work on the other side of the wreath and fit things in as I work on that flower out of place. I was greatly annoyed at myself! But not annoyed enough to rip it out on this particular project.
ReplyDeleteIf I had stitched much more, I probably would have left it and then switched to a lighter purple for the stars so they would show but . . it's all ripped out and I'll stitch it correctly tonight. Your idea is good - you can make it look right so there's no need to rip back.
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